My name is Tommaso Testa and I am an Italian graduate in Mechanical Engineering. I graduated on 24 July 2017, receiving almost the highest score, 108/110 at the Alma Mater Studiorum University, located in Bologna, Italy. The Mechanical Engineering degree that I accomplished was a 5-year degree in total, which included a 3-year standard degree plus 2 years of specialisation, which may be translated as a Master’s degree. During this period, which began in September 2014 and ended in July 2017, I had a valuable experience in the dynamics of robot’s field and in the automatic industry. In the final 8 months of my degree, I studied all the limits of the shell finite elements theory from “A Proposed Standard Set of Problems to Test Finite Element Accuracy”, by Richard H. Macneal and Robert L. Harder (1985), to allow me to conduct analysis and simulations with new Finite Element software, like Ansys Workbench and LS-Dyna. After completing this first part of my studies, I had an experience in Research and Development, which was organised through the University at a company called CT-Pack, Ferrara, Italy. I wrote a thesis on the Analysis of Kinetic-Elastic-Dynamics of a Delta Robot, in which I analysed the vibration answer of the system Frame-Robot. I simulated the Transient of the Kinematics during the work of the system and I demonstrated my solutions. CT-Pack were satisfied with the results of my analysis, and decided to use them in their company. Now I am working as a consultant at an R&D company, located in the north of Italy. My position at the company is Project Designer and I am developing a project of an entire mechanism for the study of kinematic motion of components.
